A good late seventies Columbia ?

Strider79itStrider79it 1,176 Posts
edited November 2007 in Strut Central
I don't mind a quick listen to "Ginseng Woman" by E. Gale and "first Course" by L. Ritenour..... do you know any other not-so-horrible output for the same label ?

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  • FlomotionFlomotion 2,390 Posts
    Several Herbie Hancock albums on Columbia from that era which don't suck.

  • Several Herbie Hancock albums on Columbia from that era which don't suck.

    mmhhh... so please name the best one in your opinion (my hancock knowledge ends with "thrust")

  • FlomotionFlomotion 2,390 Posts
    Well, if you're lukewarm on Herbie this may not help but the obvious contenders here are VSOP, Sunlight, and Feets Don't Fail me Now.

  • Sunlight is a good one.

  • (my hancock knowledge ends with "thrust")
    ...and shame on you!

  • Big_StacksBig_Stacks "I don't worry about hittin' power, cause I don't give 'em nuttin' to hit." 4,670 Posts
    Hey,

    Here are two more:

    -"I Am"-Earth, Wind, and Fire.
    -"Menagerie"-Bill Withers.
    -cosign on the Herbie Hancock joints.

    No love for Weather Report from that period?

    Peace,

    Big Stacks from Kakalak

  • FlomotionFlomotion 2,390 Posts


    No love for Weather Report from that period?

    Peace,

    Big Stacks from Kakalak

    No. They can take their fedoras and their alto saxes and stick 'em up their collective proverbial. Innit.


  • BTW talking of Hancock: Secrets or Man-child ? ?

  • Columbia has recorded every kind of music there is, so this is a broad category, but as far as late-seventies albums on this label (and subsidiaries), I'll ride for:

    - Johnny Paycheck, Armed & Crazy
    - Laughing Dogs (self-titled)
    - Sinceros, The Sound Of Sunbathing
    - Bobby Rush, Rush Hour
    - Permanent Wave (various-artist compilation of punk/new wave acts)
    - The Clash(self-titled; actually came out in the UK in '77, but was released in the US in '79)
    - Ian Gomm, Gomm With The Wind

  • Add:
    The Beat - s/t
    Jules & the Polar Bears - Got No Breeding and Fenetiks
    Max Roach - M'Boom
    Springsteen - Darkness on the Edge of Town

  • TomOTomO 169 Posts
    How about:

    Samuel Jonathan Johnson - My Music

    The title track is one of my favourite raregroove tracks of all time.
    Check it.

    Cosign on all the Herbie joints too .

  • Add:
    The Beat - s/t
    Jules & the Polar Bears - Got No Breeding and Fenetiks

    Thanks, forgot all about the Beat!

    I have a 7" promotional EP Columbia put out featuring these two bands plus the Sinceros and the Hounds that was meant to hype their more accessible new wave acts (in other words: power pop). I forget the title right now, but this EP turns up regularly in used stores...

  • TheMackTheMack 3,414 Posts
    Irakere

  • hcrinkhcrink 8,729 Posts
    - Laughing Dogs (self-titled)

    Great record. I brought it up a while back in a power pop thread over at wankerdermy and either no one knew it or no one liked it.

  • GuzzoGuzzo 8,611 Posts

  • - Laughing Dogs (self-titled)

    Great record. I brought it up a while back in a power pop thread over at wankerdermy and either no one knew it or no one liked it.

    A guy I know from another message board is like the biggest Laughing Dogs fan going, and it was through him that I started listening myself.

    I didn't like that Live At CBGB's comp on Atlantic the first time I heard it years ago, but I recently bought it because the Laughing Dogs were on it, so I'll likely listen with a fresh pair of ears this time.

    Oh, another great CBS record from the end of the decade:

  • batmonbatmon 27,574 Posts

    Epic was under Columbia in '79?


  • Epic was under Columbia in '79?

    Epic has always been under Columbia.



  • or if you are across the pond, it was called "Killing Machine"

  • SwayzeSwayze 14,705 Posts


    also on epic...

  • deLYSdeLYS 388 Posts

    1979

    track 2, track 5

    added bonus, concept album on doin the nasty.

  • HarveyCanalHarveyCanal "a distraction from my main thesis." 13,234 Posts
    Bill Withers - Naked & Warm and Menagerie


  • BTW talking of Hancock: Secrets or Man-child ? ?

    I'd go with Man-child.

  • Add:
    The Beat - s/t
    Jules & the Polar Bears - Got No Breeding and Fenetiks

    Thanks, forgot all about the Beat!

    I have a 7" promotional EP Columbia put out featuring these two bands plus the Sinceros and the Hounds that was meant to hype their more accessible new wave acts (in other words: power pop). I forget the title right now, but this EP turns up regularly in used stores...


  • Add:
    The Beat - s/t
    Jules & the Polar Bears - Got No Breeding and Fenetiks

    Thanks, forgot all about the Beat!

    I have a 7" promotional EP Columbia put out featuring these two bands plus the Sinceros and the Hounds that was meant to hype their more accessible new wave acts (in other words: power pop). I forget the title right now, but this EP turns up regularly in used stores...


    Yeah, that's the record I was talking about.

    The long-haired, metal looking dudes on the bottom right-hand side of the cover up there were Chicago's own Hounds, who passed for punk rock in the Windy City and even attempted to challenge the Ramones to a battle of the bands when the latter came thru town.

  • SoulOnIceSoulOnIce 13,027 Posts

  • Big_StacksBig_Stacks "I don't worry about hittin' power, cause I don't give 'em nuttin' to hit." 4,670 Posts

    Wrong date, 1980. Great album, though.

    Peace,

    Big Stacks from Kakalak


  • BTW talking of Hancock: Secrets or Man-child ? ?

    I'd go with Man-child.

    mmhh thanks
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